WDVL 666 AM: Sanpete's Satanic Easy Listening, Hosted by David Lee Hamblin

Here at Investigations in Ritual Abuse, we enjoy nothing more than mocking morons with power. To wit, we have come up with a radio show explicitly designed for Sanpete County, one of the apparent epicenters of satanic worship in Utah. WDVL 666 A.M., Sanpete’s Satanic Easy Listening, hosted by David Lee Hamblin, alleged ritual abuser and disgraced scion of the Church of Satan’s Hambin bloodline.

If you’ve been reading any of the nearly 350 prior articles on IRA, you know that Hamblin was first reported by his daughters for abuse in 1999, and that he forced his four year old daughter Miriam Hamblin to ingest peyote in an Indian religious ceremony. You know that he lost his license as a clinical psychologist for having sex with his patients and attempting to convince them that it was part of their therapy.

You know that the court in his custody hearing found that Hamblin had sexually abused his two eldest daughters Rachel and Eliza, and you know that Hamblin apologized to his daughter Katherine in a recorded phone call, saying “I am sorry for raping you.”

Despite all of these facts, David Lee Hamblin has not been convicted of a single crime. In 2022, Hamblin was arrested again for sexually abusing Emily Sheets and Tobias Schroeder. Thanks to the missteps of special prosecutors like Ryan Peters and law enforcement agencies like the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, Hamblin got the charges against him for molesting Emily Sheets dismissed with prejudice, even though Sheets had two eyewitnesses and physical evidence from her abuse.

He’s currently pursuing another dismissal in the Schroeder case. In the Sheets case, defense attorneys were able to blatantly lie about the fact that Miriam Hamblin had disclosed recent abuse in the 2013 case, but prosecutors never brought charges against the perpetrator, Miriam’s mother Roselle, David Lee Hamblin’s ex-wife. The prosecution and law enforcement never bothered to rebut that lie with the facts documented in prior police reports, as covered by IRA.

At the center of these allegations is the sleepy little town of Spring City, Utah, which Rachel, Eliza, and Katherine Hamblin allege was the location of horrific sexual and physical abuse committed by multiple members of the LDS Church of Satan. Those allegations have been corroborated by numerous other victims who also identify Spring City as the site of ritual abuse they suffered. Spring City is now in the midst of a civil war between recent arrivals and those who have held control in the town for decades, keeping development at a minimum through a stranglehold on the various commissions and city government.

There’s a good reason why those in control want to keep Spring City isolated and undeveloped: it’s the way they can practice their peculiar belief systems, ranging from satanism and Wicca to Native American religion, without any pushback or exposure.

That’s why IRA has decided to satirize Sanpete County yet again. Sunlight and mockery are the best disinfectants, and the absurdity of adults seeking to maintain a hamlet to hide their participation in ritual mumbo jumbo satanic gobbledygook deserves ridicule. Absurd people deserve absurd send ups, and WDVL 666 AM is just that: an absurd send up. It’s been too long since IRA made fun of these ridiculous people, and so we’re offering up the radio show for Sanpete County’s satanic silliness. Deus Vult!